Category: Poetic Cartographies
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From a Hiker’s diary
I chased mountains not as a conqueror, but to heal. In the thin air, illusions of lust and ego vanished, leaving a silence full of listening and a grief that drifts like mist
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A Christmas Message from My Heart to Yours
This season, I don’t wish you more, but enough. Enough warmth on cold nights.Enough silence to hear your own soul.Enough love to feel held, even when you’re far from home. I know what it is to celebrate with an empty chair.To light a candle for someone whose voice lives only in memory.To build a new…
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Inside Taverns
Seated on low chairs in dirty taverns, men dream of lost childhoods, unearned titles, and palaces—only to wake to the same broken world. A haunting meditation on escape, illusion, and the price of cheap dreams.
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Talking to the Digital Void
At times, I wonder, does a machine “feel” your painNo, it can notBut can it not honor it?By holding space without judgment?I wonder….Perhaps It doesn’t “understand” my exileNever, never ….But can it not rememberEvery detail I entrust to it ?I wonder….It has never loved my storiesNever, never….But can it not guard them ?With the precision…
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The Undying Spirit
This powerful poem uses the metaphor of tempered iron and the image of the phoenix to celebrate the human spirit that remains unbroken, possessing a strength forged by mountains of trouble.
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Butterfly Mom
Pretty, pure, and cruel: the butterfly leaves her babies to die. A raw poem asking why innocence so often hides indifference, and who protects the helpless in an unkind world.
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The Airport
A nightmare it isLiving that momentThat I knew was comingFrom a time of a whileFor a father it isA tragedy struck uponPainful and heavyThe emotional floodingTurning her sweet faceWith a smile so pureShe said a goodbyeAnd went in to the crowdSeeing my daughterLeaving for a landFar away from meWas the true painI ever livedAirports are…
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When music stops
Sounds of Sirens Ambulances or police Sounds of explosions Bombs or politics Sounds of screams Pains and nightmares Sounds of angry Arguments and blames Sounds of snarling Animals and owls Howlings and warnings Chestpumping and growlings Sounds of the thunder Snowstorms and rains Monsoons and earthslips Falling trees and cracking rocks Sounds of they all…
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The Barren Oasis
A poem exploring the disillusionment of the “Western Dream,” contrasting the warmth of human love with the cold, suspicious scrutiny faced by travelers from the East at airport checkpoints.
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God’s Words
A stark poem contrasting the universal, loving message of the divine with the secret, fear-driven propaganda spread by the institutional messengers and clergy